Requisition No: 4153
- Executive Division: Operations
- Division: Aged General Medical Sub Acute Services
- Program: AGMS - Clinical
- Department: General Internal Medicine
- Enterprise Agreement: Doctors in Training (Victorian Public Health Secto
- Job Function: Medical
- Project:
**2026 General Medicine Advanced Trainee**
- **Location**: Sunshine/Footscray
- **Employment Type**: Full-Time
- **Salary**:HM25 to HM30
**About the role**
Western Health offers a comprehensive advanced training program in General and Acute Care Medicine including for those undertaking dual training in association with another subspecialty. There are rotations for core General Medicine plus a range of rotations that have previously been accredited as general medicine-related and subspecialty terms, including acute terms.
The General Internal Medicine Unit operates across the two campuses - Footscray and Sunshine Hospitals. Both hospitals have four inpatient General Internal Medicine inpatient teams and admit over 3,000 patients each a year. Sunshine Hospital also has a ward-based Rapid Admission and Discharge Unit (RADU) to manage our growing population.
There is a senior medical registrar based at both Sunshine and Footscray Hospital. These roles provide managerial support to the General Internal Medicine service at each site and an inpatient consultation service. The senior medical registrar at Sunshine also supports the Obstetric Medicine Service. Both senior medical registrars work closely with the Director of Physician Education to organise preparation for the RACP written and clinical examinations and coordinate Western Health as a site for the RACP clinical examination.
The ED Liaison registrar at Sunshine Hospital receives referrals from ED to General Internal Medicine, manages acutely unwell GIM inpatients in the ED and provides a medical consults service for inpatients of other units in the ED.
Advanced physician trainees in GACM also participate in the after-hours clinical lead rosters, providing clinical oversight and support to junior medical staff and supporting the ICU Liaison team MET call response.
The advanced trainees in General Internal Medicine work closely with the Head of Unit to ensure an efficient and high-quality service and to supervise and support junior medical staff. Rotations are also available to other specialty medical units at Western Health.
**Six month rotations are offered in the following areas**:
- Senior Medical Registrar - Footscray Hospital (including perioperative medicine)
- Senior Medical Registrar - Sunshine Hospital (including obstetric medicine)
- Community Medicine/Complex and Chronic Care
- Obstetric Medicine (non-SOMANZ-accredited)
- Neurology
- Nephrology
- Infectious Diseases
- Respiratory Medicine
- Hospital in the Home
- Rapid Admission and Discharge Unit (RADU)
- Intensive Care
- ED Liaison
The General Internal Medicine Unit is closely associated with the University of Melbourne, Western Clinical School and has an active research program and consultants with experience in supporting productive advanced training projects. There are also opportunities for future higher degree research training projects/PhDs.
**Key responsibilities**:
- Participate in the after-hours Clinical Lead roster and on-call medical registrar roster
- Quality patient care via clinical assessment, admissions and development of management plans
- Day to day management of patients as well as a role in initial assessment of patients referred by other units,
- The initiation and interpretation of clinical investigations
- Performance of required clinical procedures with appropriate training and supervision
- Liaison with other team members, and communication with patients and their relatives as required
- Attendance at ward rounds
**About you**:
- Applications are invited from suitably qualified Medical Officers who:
- Have passed the FRACP written and clinical examinations
- Have completed basic physician training
- Would like to pursue Advanced Training in General and Acute Care Medicine in 2025
**Position Description**
**About Western Health**
Western Health is one of the largest healthcare providers in Victoria, caring for a vibrant, diverse and rapidly growing community of one million people in Melbourne's western suburbs.
With more than 13,000 staff, Western Health delivers 800,000+ occasions of care every year, providing high-quality, person-centred care across every life stage.
We provide a combination of hospital, community-based, at-home and in-reach services to aged, adult and paediatric patients and newborn babies. Specialties include oncology, renal, mental health, women's health and maternity, chronic diseases, geriatrics and cardiology.
We have remarkable strengths in chronic disease, complex care and developing innovative and sustainable healthcare solutions. Our experience at the coalface of healthcare delivery for some of Australia's most culturally and socioeconomicall